Voltage regulation in distribution systems - Tap changer and Wind Power
(2010) In CODEN:LUTEDX/TEIE EIE920 20101Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation
- Abstract
- Power quality is an important issue for the distribution network companies. They must guarantee the electricity supply fulfilling the requirements for the consumers. In this thesis we investigate specifically voltage requirements. We use transformers and tap changers to see how the voltage works in an electric system and we analyze the relationships with other aspects of the system’s performance, like power losses or tap changer operation.
Lunds Energi wants to investigate any change that could improve the voltage quality.
For that purpose, they provide us with real data of their systems, consisting of a city system and a countryside system with the characteristics of the lines, the transformers, the generation and the loads. Also, they... (More) - Power quality is an important issue for the distribution network companies. They must guarantee the electricity supply fulfilling the requirements for the consumers. In this thesis we investigate specifically voltage requirements. We use transformers and tap changers to see how the voltage works in an electric system and we analyze the relationships with other aspects of the system’s performance, like power losses or tap changer operation.
Lunds Energi wants to investigate any change that could improve the voltage quality.
For that purpose, they provide us with real data of their systems, consisting of a city system and a countryside system with the characteristics of the lines, the transformers, the generation and the loads. Also, they supply the load profiles over one day which are made up of 24 values, one per hour. Using PowerWorld Simulator, first we build a generic system to run some simulations and extract conclusions that could be useful for the voltage problems in the real systems. Then, we build the city and countryside system and we run different cases, firstly focusing on identifying the problems experienced by Lunds Energi, and subsequently modifying the settings to look for potential improvements.
Analyzing the simulation results we do not find a significant voltage problem in the city system, however, there is a low voltage problem at some costumers of the countryside system. Changing the settings of the transformer would improve the voltage quality and also the addition of a line drop compensation system would be positive. Globally, based on the results of the simulations, we confirm that there is a direct relation between the voltage set point and the losses and, also, between the deadband amplitude and the tap changer operation.
In the case of the countryside system, Lunds Energi considers connecting wind turbines to the net. We simulate this case as well, in order to analyze the problem of too high voltage in some buses and we calculate the power we are allowed to generate without going out of the voltage limits. The conclusion is that this is a very interesting solution because we can inject enough power to feed all the loads and since the generation is close to the consumer we are reducing the power losses too. We propose some turbines those are currently in the market and are suitable for the system.
For the future work, we suggest some modifications to study these systems. It could be more realistic to use load profiles with higher resolution to have a more realistic idea of the performance of the tap changer in the transformers. Also, it is more realistic to add the measurements of the voltage in the beginning of the system instead of assuming a constant value. The last suggestion is to work with other types of load models, than constant power since the relation between the voltage and the losses is then different. (Less)
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- author
- Sáez Romero, David
- supervisor
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- Olof Samuelsson LU
- Ingmar Leisse LU
- organization
- course
- EIE920 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- publication/series
- CODEN:LUTEDX/TEIE
- report number
- 5270
- language
- English
- id
- 3626489
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- 2013-05-22 15:58:56
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abstract = {{Power quality is an important issue for the distribution network companies. They must guarantee the electricity supply fulfilling the requirements for the consumers. In this thesis we investigate specifically voltage requirements. We use transformers and tap changers to see how the voltage works in an electric system and we analyze the relationships with other aspects of the system’s performance, like power losses or tap changer operation.
Lunds Energi wants to investigate any change that could improve the voltage quality.
For that purpose, they provide us with real data of their systems, consisting of a city system and a countryside system with the characteristics of the lines, the transformers, the generation and the loads. Also, they supply the load profiles over one day which are made up of 24 values, one per hour. Using PowerWorld Simulator, first we build a generic system to run some simulations and extract conclusions that could be useful for the voltage problems in the real systems. Then, we build the city and countryside system and we run different cases, firstly focusing on identifying the problems experienced by Lunds Energi, and subsequently modifying the settings to look for potential improvements.
Analyzing the simulation results we do not find a significant voltage problem in the city system, however, there is a low voltage problem at some costumers of the countryside system. Changing the settings of the transformer would improve the voltage quality and also the addition of a line drop compensation system would be positive. Globally, based on the results of the simulations, we confirm that there is a direct relation between the voltage set point and the losses and, also, between the deadband amplitude and the tap changer operation.
In the case of the countryside system, Lunds Energi considers connecting wind turbines to the net. We simulate this case as well, in order to analyze the problem of too high voltage in some buses and we calculate the power we are allowed to generate without going out of the voltage limits. The conclusion is that this is a very interesting solution because we can inject enough power to feed all the loads and since the generation is close to the consumer we are reducing the power losses too. We propose some turbines those are currently in the market and are suitable for the system.
For the future work, we suggest some modifications to study these systems. It could be more realistic to use load profiles with higher resolution to have a more realistic idea of the performance of the tap changer in the transformers. Also, it is more realistic to add the measurements of the voltage in the beginning of the system instead of assuming a constant value. The last suggestion is to work with other types of load models, than constant power since the relation between the voltage and the losses is then different.}},
author = {{Sáez Romero, David}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
series = {{CODEN:LUTEDX/TEIE}},
title = {{Voltage regulation in distribution systems - Tap changer and Wind Power}},
year = {{2010}},
}